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The Music => Recordings & Broadcasts => Topic started by: Alan Howe on Saturday 19 April 2025, 12:24

Title: Dohnányi Suite in F#minor, Op.19 (1908/9)
Post by: Alan Howe on Saturday 19 April 2025, 12:24
Anybody know this delectable work?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky9V-DWYH7Q     (Chandos recording/c. Bamert)
Title: Re: Dohnányi Suite in F#minor, Op.19 (1908/9)
Post by: John Boyer on Saturday 19 April 2025, 12:35
Oh, yes.  About 30 years ago I bought the EMI recording with Malcolm Sargent leading the Royal Philharmonic and have enjoyed it ever since.
Title: Re: Dohnányi Suite in F#minor, Op.19 (1908/9)
Post by: Alan Howe on Saturday 19 April 2025, 16:28
Another work/composer that's gone out of fashion?
Title: Re: Dohnányi Suite in F#minor, Op.19 (1908/9)
Post by: eschiss1 on Saturday 19 April 2025, 16:35
Some of his works have stayed in the repertoire; it's a relative thing, no pun intended. (Wikipedia lists almost a dozen recordings just of this work over the years; I was unaware of most of them.)
Title: Re: Dohnányi Suite in F#minor, Op.19 (1908/9)
Post by: Elgar4Ever on Monday 21 April 2025, 23:43
Dohnany's Suite has been a favorite work since my introduction to it in the Sargent recording. It has some modern recordings, but like the Goldmark Rustic Wedding Symphony has been unfairly neglected this century.
I think the only way this lovely, melodious piece will be resurrected now, would be as a Neeme Jarvi Chandos recording. He seems to be the last great conductor to want to rescue long forgotten works in recordings.
By the way, there was a Milton Katims Seattle Symphony recording from the early 1950's.
Title: Re: Dohnányi Suite in F#minor, Op.19 (1908/9)
Post by: semloh on Friday 25 April 2025, 12:48
Yes, the Sargent EMI recording is a long-time favourite. Many years ago, performances of the Suite used to occasionally pop up on BBC Radio 3, but I think more attention was paid to the Nursery Variations, Both seem to have faded into obscurity during the intervening fifty years or so.